gHacks technology news » create shortcuts http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Create Shortcuts With Advanced Shortcuts Composer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/14/create-shortcuts-with-advanced-shortcuts-composer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/14/create-shortcuts-with-advanced-shortcuts-composer/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:09:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6993 Creating Shortcuts in Windows is not really that complicated. A right-click on a folder or file provides access to the create shortcut menu and there is also the option to drag and drop files or folders to another path which will create a shortcut when the CTRL key is pressed during the operation.

The software program Advanced Shortcuts Composer provides a few advantages over both already build in methods of creating shortcuts. The user can either drag and drop a file or folder in the program’s interface or browse the computer and pick the files or folders that way. He then has the option to change the shortcut’s name, the destination and more importantly the program’s priority and a shortcut key combination to launch it directly using only the keyboard in Windows.

The option to set another process priority is not available when creating shortcuts manually in Windows and it could be a real timesaver just for this reason.

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The Advanced Shortcuts Composer comes with another application build in so to speak which can patch already existing shortcuts. Patching basically means to select a different program priority for the application.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/14/create-shortcuts-with-advanced-shortcuts-composer/feed/ 0 Create special shortcurts with Tooler http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/20/create-special-shortcurts-with-tooler/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/20/create-special-shortcurts-with-tooler/#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:09:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/20/create-special-shortcurts-with-tooler/ I can see the first question coming up pretty quickly. Special shortcuts, what´s that ? I had some trouble finding a heading that describes tooler and I decided to stick with the description that the author of this nice little tool used. Tooler is able to create shortcuts in three locations: desktop, startmenu, programs menu. You can create eleven different shortcuts with it that might speed up things a little bit.

You can create shortcuts to run, disable or enable screensavers, eject and close the cdrom tray, set the volume, turn of the monitor, disable mouse and keyboard, shutdown and restart your system and finally logout the current user. No one needs all of those shortcuts but some might come in handy for some of you. I especially like the shortcuts that eject and close the cdrom tray, great if you use tools that automatically eject the cdrom tray. (like nero, after burning a cd or dvd).

Tooler is freeware and only 50K in size. Just unpack it somewhere and run it. No installation, no new registry entries, great little tool.

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